The Relative Fitness Value of Sports Played by Canadian Forces Personnel,
Abstract
Canadian Forces (CF) personnel are encouraged to participate in organized sports as a means of achieving and maintaining a desirable level of physical fitness. This study was undertaken to determine whether CF sport participants were more physically fit than a reference CF population, and to determine which sports most effectively promote physical fitness. Five components of physical fitness, including aerobic power, strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and an estimate of body fat, were measured with a battery of standard tests. The results indicated that the sport participants had higher aerobic power, were stronger, possessed greater muscular endurance, greater flexibility, and had less subcutaneous body fat than the reference CF population. According to the fitness of the competitors, the sports were ranked in the following descending order: (for males) volleyball, marathon running, hockey, broomball, badminton, softball, curling and bowling; (for females) volleyball, curling and softball. It was concluded that the CF sport competitors were, in general, more physically fit than the CF reference population and that volleyball players were the fittest of all the sport competitors tested. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA121802
Entities
People
- C. L. Allen
- D. G. Bell
- J. I. Pope
Organizations
- DRDC Toronto